Window of opportunity for feds to address health-care deficits

The COVID-19 pandemic has opened the door to something more.

Minster of Health Patty Hajdu, centre, pictured Dec. 8, 2020, on the Hill. Lessons from the pandemic point to two structural issues that are well within the federal government’s capacity to address: Canada’s system of long-term care and challenges within the health-care talent pipeline. The current environment opens a window to fresh policy action and a renewed federal/provincial partnership on health care.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SARAH WATTS-RYNARD

April 19, 2021

Headlines across Canada and around the world continue to be filled with news of shutdowns, widespread economic chaos and the race to vaccinate. Where we once defaulted to small talk about the weather, conversation has turned to daily case counts, ICU beds, and vaccination statistics. Health has beco...

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